The economist and public intellectual Thomas Sowell turned 95 years old in June. Outside of national politicians and ...

A video livestream will be available on this page starting at 11 AM on Wednesday, June 2nd. Please scroll down to view. On June 2, AEI’s Jonah Goldberg moderated a discussion with AEI’s Mark J. Perry ...

Join us for a discussion with Jason Riley on Thomas Sowell and why his writings—on everything from school choice and affirmative action to economic inequality and social justice—continue to be ...

Renowned conservative philosopher and economist Thomas Sowell joined "Life, Liberty & Levin" as its first guest of its new two-day-per-week airing to discuss his own personal pivot from Marxism as a ...

Until 1991, when Clarence Thomas was nominated and then confirmed to the Supreme Court, the most prominent black conservative in America was likely Thomas Sowell, the Chicago-trained economist and ...

In economics, the law of diminishing returns states that the benefits gained from an enterprise will be proportionally smaller the more money, time, or energy is invested in it. Thankfully this is not ...

The assumption upon which the entire social justice vision rests is that people and groups would achieve relatively similar outcomes if it weren’t for the singular factor of “discrimination by ...

Wonder Land: Whether it's the migrant crisis, gender identity, shoplifting, student loans or decriminalizing federal laws on cannabis possession, Republican presidential candidates should not stop ...

In these highlights from a 2011 interview with the Hoover Institution's Peter Robinson, economist Thomas Sowell talks about race and culture, income disparity, and education and academia. Video Images ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Stuart Anderson writes about immigration, business and globalization. A new book by Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley is a ...

When Thomas Sowell arrived at the University of Chicago in the fall of 1959 to begin his Ph.D. studies, Milton Friedman had been on the faculty for more than a decade. But Sowell hadn't gone there to ...

Looking back at the history of tragic times often reveals that many or most of the people of those times were often preoccupied with things that look trivial, or even pathetic, in view of the ...